Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis